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Dear HArCS faculty,
It is time, once again, to ask you to submit your latest achievements at http://www.ls.ucdavis.edu/harcs/faculty-notes.html. We want to know about prizes, awards and fellowships; exhibitions, readings and performances; books and other major publications. This information is used in a variety of ways to celebrate the accomplishments of HArCS faculty.
We also welcome suggestions for this "roundup" of news from HArCS faculty and grads. Please email kharbaugh@ucdavis.edu.
With best wishes,
Jessie Ann Owens
Dean
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Two HArCS Faculty Win 2011-2012 Chancellor's Fellowships
Two faculty members from the division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies have been named Chancellor's Fellows for 2011-2012: Kurt Rohde of the Department of Music and Yiyun Li of the Department of English. Rohde and Li join a cohort of seven fellows named this year, including faculty in Psychology, Plant Biology, Computer Science, and Geology. Fellows are honored for having demonstrated outstanding records of achievement early in their careers. Each fellow receives a $25,000 prize and is entitled to use title "Chancellor's Fellow" for five years. Read the rest of the article on the HArCS website. |
Music Professor Receives Commission as Part of the TenFourteen Project
Laurie San Martin of the Department of Music has been awarded a commission by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and TenFourteen LLC, an arm of the Jebediah Foundation. The TenFourteen Project consists of ten chamber works commissioned from an international group of distinguished composers including San Martin, Chou Wen-chung, George Crumb, Lei Liang, Koji Nakano, Gabriela Ortiz, Elena Ruehr, Ken Ueno, Du Yun, and Agata Zubel. The ten works will be performed in San Francisco as part of five concerts during the 2014-2015 season of The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, all under the direction of the group's Artistic Director, Steven Schick. To read more about the project, click here.
San Martin has also received a 2011 commission from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. For more information on this award, click here.
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Performance Studies Grads Honored with Major Dance Awards
Jess Curtis, Performance Studies PhD candidate, has won a 2011 Alpert Award for Dance. The Alpert Award "honors and supports artists respected for their creativity, ingenuity, and bodies of work, at a moment in their lives when they are poised to propel their art in new and unpredictable directions." For more information on Jess Curtis and the Alpert Award, click here.
Keith Hennessy, also a PhD candidate in Performance Studies, won a coveted "Bessie" Award for his original performance "Crotch." For an overview of Hennessy's work, click here.
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Research and Creative Work
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HArCS Faculty Provide Windows into Civility for DHI's Civility Project
Two HArCS faculty members and a graduate student have contributed short scholarly essays featured on the UC Davis Humanities Institute's Civility Project website. Titled "Windows into Civility," the three essays address concepts of civility from different disciplinary perspectives. Mark Kessler, Assistant Professor of Design, considers the ways in which the physical design of the UC Davis campus contributes to or inhibits civil discourse. Naomi Janowitz, professor of Religious Studies, offers an alternative set of principles of community. Spanish graduate student Arturo Vargas analyzes the "capture the illegal immigrant" game staged on the quad in 2007. All three essays can be read in full on the Civility Project website.
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Faculty Publications
Larry Bogad penned Cointelshow: A Patriot Act. Published with a foreword by Guillermo Gómez Peña, the play is described as "a cheerfully creepy tour of declassified government surveillance documents." See the Department of Theatre & Dance website for details.
Douglas Kahn, Professor Emeritus, and Larry Austin, who was a professor of music at UC Davis from 1958-1972, have published Source: Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966-1973, an edited collection of materials from the journal Source. This seminal publication captured the heyday of experimental music and arts in and around UC Davis. Source published some of the era's most provocative original work in music and art, including works by John Cage, Nam June Paik, and many more. Kahn and Austin's collection gives readers a glimpse of UC Davis at its most lively and showcases the community's contributions to this pivotal period in the arts. For more information, see the UC Press website.
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More HArCS News
English Professor Timothy Morton was interviewed on Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" show. The interview is archived on the show's website.
The Mellon Initiative in Environments & Societies kicked off its first year of events with a talk by Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of History Traci Brynne Voyles. A winter and spring colloquium will feature distinguished speakers from around the nation. Click here for more information. The University Writing Program honored the undergraduates whose award-winning essays were published in Prized Writing 2010-2011 at a ceremony on November 17. This volume, edited by lecturer Amy Clarke, is the twenty-second in the series. Prized Writing gives student authors a chance to see their work in print and reinforces the quality of the UWP "writing across the curriculum" program, recognized by US News and World Report as one of the top in the nation. Copies are available in the bookstore.
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News from the Dean's Office
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Religion Graduate Group Approved
The Graduate Group in the Study of Religion has received final approval from the Office of the President to establish a M.A. / Ph.D. program. It will admit its first students for the 2013-14 academic year. "I am delighted that this new graduate group has been approved," said Jessie Ann Owens, dean of the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. "The graduate group in the Study of Religion emerged, along with Performance Studies, as the leading candidates in our divisional planning process, based both on the constellation of faculty at UC Davis and clear evidence of student demand."
See the full story on the HArCS News and Research page.
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